and trying to do things, make sure that the private equity people don t get to use this capital gains exemption for carried interest and such. this is a complete fundamental shift within the republican party to where the focus is on making sure that the middle class gets a tax break here. i ve got to go back to something a moment ago. there s not some magical tax increase that s coming for folks in any certain bracket. senators put essentially had the tax cuts expire which i think when this is all said and done they re going to be permanent in here. no politician running for president is going to campaign on raising taxes on people. we need to make those permanent so everybody gets health care. but there s no magical tax hike people are going to get tax reductions. this is just in. moments ago on the senate floor. watch this. i come from the poor people, and i ve been here working my whole stinking career for people who don t have a chance. and i really resent anybody saying that
a dying industry and you should have gotten out anyway and all of a sudden somebody wakes you back up to life. what s these last few years been like for a you? i can t lie. it s been tough. the renewed sense of optimism that we saw starting on november 9th. it was unbelievable. it was fantastic to see and ogo underground to coal miners and have them high fiving and get to work. it s been great. the optimism is something that we needed in this industry. and we have a president of the united states that stands with us and we thank president trump for that. steve: sure, christian, you are from the state of ohio, every politician running for president wants to win ohio. trump did. but you have seen historically politicians come in and make promises that they could never keep. how surreal was it for you to be in that room with him yesterday after actually keeping the campaign promise that caused to you vote for him? i think it s one of the main reasons that president trump won the state
politician running for office are the ones that reinforce an already existing negative impression. do you think she s dishonest? i think she s a traditional politician. that s such a weak answer. that s a weak answer. i m going to get another sentence in here. i think republicans have made a dire mistake in focusing on the wrong thing. in focusing on the night we lost our ambassador and trying to place blame in terms of the how about the lies she told us? rather than concentrating on the spin, on the fact that she spin? can i ask you a question, is it possible for america to elect a person where 60% think they re dishonest and untrustworthy? is that possible? it s entirely possible as we sit here tonight that hillary clinton will be the next president unless you don t answer a single question. counselor, i object, your honor, its he s obfuscating the issue. i would say with hillary clinton, it s already baked into
that s not true. i m going to ask it one more time. 60% of americans think hillary is a liar, dishonest, untrustworthy, do you think those people are wrong? i think that 60% of those people i m not sure where you re getting that statistic from. i think hillary clinton is on a roll right now. a one-week roll? a one-week roll. so is ben carson on a one-week roll. it s a long campaign. she s had a good week. wait a minute. i don t think it was such a good week. because it was exposed in the hearings that at the same time she s telling the american people that this was a spontaneous demonstration related to a youtube video she s telling her daughter and the president of libya, the prime minister of egypt that it s not related to a youtube video and terror-related. that s fair game. look, one of the reasons this has blown up, the e-mail scandal, the server scandal, benghazi last week, because we know the most problematic scandals for any politician running for office a
polling, we have graphics we can pull up, he actually does well against donald trump the in head-to-head matchups. hillary clinton actually loses to trump in florida on this. but despite these numbers, you are still calling it a quote, monumental mistake for him to run. is this because in the words of jennifer grandholm, former governor of michigan, you poll the best the day before you jump in? absolutely. remember what she was polling at when she was secretary of state? she was the most popular politician in the country. as soon as you step into the fray and start getting on the receiving end of political attacks, your numbers inevitably go down and look at the approval ratings for politicians across the board. obama s ratings aren t so hot. hillary clinton for all her bad numbers, she s doing better than most of the republican candidates who have very bad approval ratings. if you are a politician running for office, you are getting hit every day and a big segment of